I just recieved this from a journalist from Nepal. It portrays the situation there. Dear friends and well-wishers, I am using email after three days, now from a diplomatic mission in Nepal secretly. As all the telephone lines, internet and other communication facilities have been cut off, we are experiencing the stone age in the 21st century. This has been a complete hell for journalists. We are not allowed to talk to anyone, political leaders are either under house arrest or have been detained? There are army men patrolling the streets. Even if there is something emergency happening in a house, there is no way of communicating to others. In the eyes of a foreign journalist, everything is calm and normal in the streets. But the weight ofg the undercurrent is unfathomable and ungauzable. Ours is the biggest media house in Nepal and it has been encircled by the army since the king addressed the nation on Tuesday morning, imposing dictatorial rule. The army officers scan all the contents before it goes to the printing or on air. My hands are shivering while writing this. (Apologies if there are mistakes.) Please don?t reply me in this ID now unless it?s too important. It?s because I won?t be able to check emails for next several days or maybe months. Our life is in threat and an eerie silence is ruling every corner of Nepal. Speaking anything against the monarch or the rulers is directly inviting an end, or being behind the bars, not less. I hope my friends outside Nepal help us in this hour of difficulty. Please circulate this email among your friends? circle, and please please please please please try to exert pressure on your government to bail my country out of the trouble and hardships we are going through. Thankyou, A journalist from Nepal (cannot reveal name) ------------ Petition Against the Coup - http://www.petitiononline.com/CoupKing/petition.html